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The final leg of our trip with the [Digital] Transmissions artists takes us on an early train to London. Starting with V&A Museum, we met with Corinna Gardner, Senior Curator of Design & Digital for a tour followed by their second presentations and learnings from the project as part of 'Digital Transmissions Takeover: Arts & Digital Innovation Speaker Series' this time to a London audience at British Council Offices. We also visited Somerset House with tours of their exhibition and studio spaces with an old FutureEverything friend, Daisy Ginsberg, finishing with a visit to Tate. [Digital] Transmissions is an annual artistic development programme for emerging Jordanian artists to learn from established digital art professionals from Jordan and the UK, collaborate, exchange knowledge with peers, experiment, and create new work in digital media. The programme has been commissioned by the British Council in Jordan and co-developed with the The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in collaboration with MetaFour Artist Collective.

Continuing our trip with the [Digital] Transmissions artists in Liverpool, we met with Maitreyi at FACT Liverpool to explore their new exhibition Art Play Games and the set up of their new Studio/Lab. We then headed to Bluecoat to learn more about their current exhibition Plotting the Course, with free time to explore Tate Liverpool. [Digital] Transmissions is an annual artistic development programme for emerging Jordanian artists to learn from established digital art professionals from Jordan and the UK, collaborate, exchange knowledge with peers, experiment, and create new work in digital media. The programme has been commissioned by the British Council in Jordan and co-developed with The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in collaboration with MetaFour art collective.

Some familiar and many new faces as we welcome our friends all the way from Jordan, artists, staff and alumni from the second edition of #digitaltransmissions! Kicking off the trip at our home in Manchester, on Monday we visited HOME and Factory International to explore possibilities of artist development and international work. On Tuesday, we visited The Whitworth to learn about how they programme and work with artists and local communities, followed by the [Digital] Transmissions artists sharing their project and learnings at SODA (School of Digital Arts). Finishing at the Salutation Pub, the artists also got the chance to wind down and network with local artists. Today, we're off to Liverpool, keep an eye out for more images through the week! [Digital] Transmissions is an annual artistic development programme for emerging Jordanian artists to learn from established digital art professionals from Jordan and the UK, collaborate, exchange knowledge with peers, experiment, and create new work in digital media. The programme has been commissioned by the British Council in Jordan and co-developed with the The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in collaboration with MetaFour art collective.

A Brilliant weekend had by all at Merseyway Shopping Centre As part of Stockroom Socials, a weekend of family friendly activity in Stockport, FutureEverything hosted a series of creative workshops designed to get us thinking about our emotional connection to the landscape and biodiversity of the town. Over two days families joined us to unearth vegetables and bulbs, and create an entirely new species of bulb/plant life! The results (as you can see) were pretty impressive! The workshops were an extension of the Stockport digital arts commission by multi-disciplinary artist and international award-winning filmmaker di mainstone, whose artwork will premiere at Stockroom, Stockport’s exciting new creative and cultural centre opening Spring 2025. A huge thank you to Stockport for organising, to Stockport Council, the Rotary Club, Underbank Studios, and the Brutalist Banque team for their brilliant contributions, to our wonderful facilitators Sarah Harrison-Greaves and Garth Williams, and to all the families that took part.  We hope you had as much fun as we did! Click the link to find out more about Di Mainstone's Emotional Biodiversity project for Stockport. https://lnkd.in/gZ6gikjq

It's arrived! Cultural Accelerator, a bold and unique creative engagement programme, hits MediaCityUK! 13 artists from diverse disciplines join forces with Greater Manchester private sector organisations, to collaborate, expand their skills, develop new creative vocabularies, and take bold artistic risks. Designed to cultivate, rejuvenate and level-up the innovation ecosystem that suffered during the pandemic, the Cultural Accelerator programme explores the ways that creative innovation can be used to identify areas for business growth, using artistic commissions as a tool to help companies explore new territories. FutureEverything has been commissioned to curate and produce Cultural Accelerator in partnership with MediaCity Immersive Technologies Innovation Hub (MITIH), as part of the Greater Manchester Innovation Accelerator programme, and The University of Salford. Follow us for updates and click the link for more info.  https://lnkd.in/eWH3ujZM #InnovationAccelerators #gtrmanchester #InnovationGreaterManchester

By bringing Nature to our Board we enter an emerging field in which much of the vocabulary is yet to be agreed on and the distinctions being made are symptomatic of categorisations intrinsic to the modern western paradigm. As part of our journey we'll be exploring these definitions in more detail, delving deeper into them and determining what they mean to us as an organisation. More-than-human is a term increasingly being referred to in the Rights of Nature movement, and in recent years has been referenced widely in the art world. The premise of more-than-human is to de-centre the human, moving away from human exceptionalism. Ecophilosopher and cultural ecologist, David Abram coined the phrase 'the more-than-human world' in his influential book, The Spell of the Sensuous, to “recogni[se] that humans are just one species among many, and that all forms of life have intrinsic value and agency”. Building on Indigenous Knowledge systems, we add plant life, minerals, micro-organisms, soils, water and so on to this conception. We are also open to emergent forms of hybrid synthetic life being considered. Read more about David Abram's work in this article 'Exploring the More-Than-Human World: Forest Bathing, Animism, and David Abram's Ecological Philosophy' > https://lnkd.in/eGa2eVba This image is taken of Wistman’s Wood, one of the last remaining fragments of Britain's temperate rainforests. #morethanhuman #ecology #indigenoustechnology #syntheticlife

ARTIST OPPORTUNITY! We’re looking for artists/creative technologists to help co-develop and deliver a series of hands-on Tech-Labs across the North! Our Tech-Lab Facilitators will prepare and facilitate a digital skill building Tech-Lab for professional and non-professional artists, which will be toured over a number of weeks across four locations in the North, as part of FutureEverything’s new creative development programme, PROTO. The PROTO_Tech-Labs are just one strand of the PROTO creative development programme, and have been designed to give participants an insight into the world of digital making. The Tech-Labs are in-person, guided sessions where participants will get an opportunity to experiment with digital art tools, programmes and technologies. FEE: £400 per Tech-Lab, a total of £1,600 for delivery across the four regions If you're an experienced facilitator, then we want to hear from you! For more information and how to apply: https://lnkd.in/dC_BFj_w Arts Council England

Our Creative Director Lucy Rose Sollitt recently gave a lecture for ''Curating Contemporary Art and Design: Theory and Practice' at Royal College of Art's Summer School, exploring material and relational entanglements of AI through the lens of ecology. Highlighting the extractive nature at the heart of AI’s development, Lucy asks whether AI can be part of flourishing ecologies of the natural and synthetic, and what this means for cultural practices. Other speakers include: Michael Connor from Rhizome, Katrina Sluis from ANU School of Art & Design, Bassam El Baroni from Aalto University, Nóra O' Murchú from transmediale - art & digital culture, and artists Joshua Citarella, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Damien Roach, and writer Gary Zhexi Zhang.

As the climate and biodiversity crisis escalates it’s increasingly clear that we need to urgently reframe our relationship with Nature. The scale of the problem requires radical solutions; changing governance structures - across businesses, culture and communities - is a good place to start. With almost 30 years experience as a creative think tank at the cutting edge of art and technology, it’s FutureEverything’s business to invent the future; now, we want Nature to reinvent us. So, we are putting Nature on our Board to transform the way we think, work, and grow so that, over time, everything we do reduces ecological degradation and strives towards restoration. FutureEverything is the first cultural institution in the UK to put Nature on the Board, joining a small handful of organisations globally who have made this move. We have been inspired to go on this ground-breaking journey by the growing Rights of Nature movement spearheaded by courageous Indigenous groups, lawyers and activists especially in countries such as Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and New Zealand. We will do our ‘research in the open’ and develop open source resources to support other businesses and not-for-profit organisations to share in our journey and be inspired to let Nature lead the way. We are excited to be embarking on this adventure, and hope you will join us for it. In particular, we want to develop collaborative relationships with partners - from legal, academia, to funders, cultural and environmental sectors - as part of researching and designing our approach and sharing learning. If you'd like to learn more about Nature on The Board, then click the link below or get in touch with us at nature@futureeverything.org https://lnkd.in/gx_dcnAQ #climateaction #creativeclimateaction #nature #environment #sustainability #artsandculture

Last week ‘RECLAIMING THE FUTURE’ launched at the The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts with a vibrant 3 day programme of dance and music performances, networking sessions, hands-on workshops, and thought provoking discussions about the ethics of digital art and Tarab music in the era of AI. ‘RECLAIMING THE FUTURE’ is a result of the [Digital] Transmissions artistic development programme for emerging Jordanian artists to learn from established digital art professionals from Jordan and the UK, to collaborate and create new work in digital media. Funded by the British Council in Jordan and supported by FutureEverything, The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts and MetaFour. The gallery was alive with vibrant artworks from the programme's residents, mentors, and advisors who worked on bringing their insightful visions to life. Discover more about [Digital] Transmissions and RECLAIM THE FUTURE by clicking the link > https://lnkd.in/erTbzpNr